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Case studies

OpenOffice.org case studies

 OpenOffice.org maintains index pages for case studies and deployments.

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Banco do Brasil, a successful case on the OpenOffice.org migration

In 2005, Banco do Brasil began a process of migration to the open source software suite OpenOffice.org. The migration commenced with the installation of the package “OpenOffice.org 2.0”. As of February 2007, this suite is found installed in more than 71,000 workstations, distributed among the branches and corporate offices.

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Haarlam (Netherlands)

The city of Haarlem – capital of North Holland – has migrated 2000 desktops to OpenOffice (which supports the OpenDocument format). Jan van de Straat, Director of R&D for the city, found that OpenOffice did not lack any functionality that was used and needed by the city’s employees.

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Vienna (Austria)

A description of Vienna's OpenOffice.org migration was presented at OpenOffice.org Conference.
See also the project website (in German).

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Bristol City Council (UK)

UK's Bristol City Council is leading work on open source office software, drawing on their experiences evaluating StarOffice (based on OpenDocument). They have gathered a wide range of information to support their decision to adopt it and implement it across 5,500 desktop computers.

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